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Hey guys I recently changed a cloakroom radiator to a towel radiator in my house When I topped the system back up I couldn’t get a lot of the rads hot without playing with all the valves to balance the system (they’re all now hot) Since doing all of this, my 12 month old Baxi combi boiler has...

A little baffled at this one... I’ve almost finished re-doing all my downstairs cloakroom and I have one 15mm copper pipe that is wet to the touch underneath the pipe. This pipe is the hot water feed to the room (not plumbed the sink in to run water yet, the pipe is cold and it’s isolated at...

Hi I have 17 radiators in my house and a combi boiler Recently drained down and I’m refilling Assuming this 1l bottle here is way more than enough for what I need? Guy at the shop had no idea... Thanks in advance

I know they’re only meant for plastic pipes, but I’m connecting two push fit valves to two copper pipes, there is no room at all, and my pipe slicer has ever so slightly deformed the end of the copper pipes. I’m thinking I can get an insert in there which will make the end perfectly round and...

Hey everyone, replacing all my bathroom including plumbing. I’ve connected two 10mm copper pipes with a Yorkshire elbow fitting. This one particular fitting never exposed any silver solder ring like the others, even when more heat was applied (to the point where the flame turned green). The...

Probably a daft question but... I have two water pipes in a downstairs bathroom sink that have obvious drain valves where the bit tees off that the hose goes on to, but on the radiators there are only these, I’m sure they are, but I can only think I’ll undo them, and water will **** out...

Hey everyone We are replacing everything in our downstairs cloakroom I’m tiling the walls with these tiles, around 1.10 meter from the floor up, all around the walls In the past I’ve used wet cutters and dry the manual scoring/snapping ones, but they were just plain small ceramic tiles...

Hey guys I need to drain my central heating system as I’m re-doing all the pipework in our downstairs cloakroom. Please can someone confirm which valve here stops water from entering the boiler? I’m assuming the large black tap on the far left, but would like confirmation. It’s a Baxi Duo...

Hi, Upstairs in our house we have a utility cupboard that used to have a single plug socket in many years ago. We never used it and we had an electrician put some electrics in our loft, he ran a wire from here and up in to the loft, and put a twin socket in the loft and a light, and also put a...

Hey all, I've had to change a central heating radiator in our spare room as the bleeder snapped off. I've had to go from imperial to metric, and I understand I will need extensions to fill the gap. The problem I have is that the new radiator sits further away from the wall than the old one...

Hi, I'm about to change a ceiling rose type light fitting for a fluorescent tube fitting. The old light has three wires going to it: Live Neutral Earth The new light (second hand, with old wire chopped off) has these wires going to it: L L1 Neutral Earth Am I ok to just...

Hi everyone, My 2.5 year old Baxi Main Eco 25 boiler has suddenly started to make a loud squealing noise when the hot taps are run upstairs, downstairs seem fine. The boiler is located downstairs, about 2 meters from the downstairs tap and about 2 meters from the upstairs taps. Pressure...

Hi everyone, I've pulled up a load of 30cm flags from my back garden where most of them were just laid on sand. I'm going to be laying a small patio for table and chairs and will be putting new gravel around this area. I've spent a couple of hours researching laying patios but...

Hi everyone, I've pulled up a load of 30cm flags from my back garden where most of them were just laid on sand. I'm going to be laying a small patio for table and chairs and will be putting new gravel around this area. I've spent a couple of hours researching laying patios but quite a...

I have four bags of B&Q builders sand left over from a previous job and was wondering if this would be ok to use for a small patio area for garden table/chairs. The flag stones are 30cm and it will be roughly 7 x 5 flags in size. I've heard about people using sharp sand but would rather...

Just wondering if I should use the spray adhesive or use clout nails that you use for roofing felt. The shed is 12 x 7 and I have a huge roll of 3mm thick vinyl. The base is made out of 18mm exterior plywood. Shed houses a heavy motorbike... Posh shed I know :roll:

Just had a shed built and due to it being higher than ground level I've had to have a ramp built. The ramp has timber supports and 18mm exterior plywood for the top. The more this gets walked on it chips away bit by bit and it the wet it will be pretty slippy to get my motorbike in and...

Hi everyone, I have wired some 1.5mm 3 core SY flex from an existing socket to a new double socket in my shed, and I have used this same cable from the new socket to a fused spur. I have then used some 2.5mm 3 core from the spur to a ceiling rose. The fused spur came with a 32a fuse...

Probably the dumbest question on the board but... I'm planning on cementing one of these in a bucket to place under my shed base before it's built. I'd rather not use the stuff you add water to as it's not as good. How easy would it be to mix two buckets worth of cement if I use the...

As my garden (and fence) goes down on a slope I'm not sure what to do with this area. As you can see there's already a flat base made of breezblocks (two layers) but if I keep it like this the shed will poke over the fence (maybe up to 1ft). Not sure if I should take the top layer of...